Richard Brautigan Quotes

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• Karma Repair Kit Items 1-4. 1.Get enough food to eat, and eat it. 2.Find a place to sleep where it is quiet, and sleep there. 3.Reduce intellectual and emotional noise until you arrive at the silence of yourself, and listen to it. 4.

  Richard Brautigan

  Karma, Sleep, Emotional

  Richard Brautigan (1989). “Richard Brautigan's Trout Fishing in America ; The Pill Versus the Springhill Mine Disaster ; And, In Watermelon Sugar”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Reduce intellectual and emotional noise
  until you arrive at the silence of yourself
  and listen to it.

  Richard Brautigan

  Emotional, Silence, Intellectual

  Richard Brautigan (1989). “Richard Brautigan's Trout Fishing in America, The Pill Versus the Springhill Mine Disaster, and In Watermelon Sugar”, p.150, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Sometimes life is merely a matter of coffee and whatever intimacy a cup of coffee affords.

  Richard Brautigan

  Coffee, Matter, Cups

  Richard Brautigan (2000). “Revenge of the Lawn: Stories 1962-1970”, p.23, Canongate Books

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• It's strange how the simple things in life go on while we become more difficult.

  Richard Brautigan

  Simple, Things In Life, Goes On

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• The time is right to mix sentences with dirt and the sun with punctuation and rain with verbs.

  Richard Brautigan

  Rain, Verbs, Dirt

  1968 Please Plant This Book,'Squash'.

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• All girls should have a poem
  written for them even if
  we have to turn this goddamn world
  upside down to do it.

  Richard Brautigan

  Girl, Should Have, World

  Richard Brautigan (2016). “C'est tout ce que j'ai à déclarer: Brautigan-Œuvres poétiques complètes”, p.281, Le Castor Astral éditeur

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• For fear you will be alone you do so many things that aren't you at all.

  Richard Brautigan

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• Finding is losing something else. I think about, perhaps even mourn, what I lost to find this

  Richard Brautigan

  Thinking, Losing, Lost

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• One day Time will die And love will bury it

  Richard Brautigan

  One Day, And Love, Dies

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• I had a good-talking candle last night in my bedroom. I was very tired but I wanted somebody to be with me, so I lit a candle and listened to its comfortable voice of light until I was asleep.

  Richard Brautigan

  Tired, Night, Light

  Richard Brautigan (1989). “Richard Brautigan's Trout Fishing in America, The Pill Versus the Springhill Mine Disaster, and In Watermelon Sugar”, p.228, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• My teachers could easily have ridden with Jesse James for all the time they stole from me.

  Richard Brautigan

  Teacher, Learning

  "C'est tout ce que j'ai à déclarer: Brautigan-Œuvres poétiques complètes".

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• I drank coffee and read old books and waited for the year to end.

  Richard Brautigan

  Coffee, Book, Years

  Richard Brautigan (1989). “Richard Brautigan's Trout Fishing in America, The Pill Versus the Springhill Mine Disaster, and In Watermelon Sugar”, p.38, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I’ll affect you slowly as if you were having a picnic in a dream. There will be no ants. It won’t rain.

  Richard Brautigan

  Dream, Rain, Picnics

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• I have always wanted to write a book that ended with the word 'mayonnaise.

  Richard Brautigan

  Book, Writing, Mayonnaise

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• Excuse me, I said. I thought you were a trout stream. I'm not, she said.

  Richard Brautigan

  Trout, Excuse, Said

  Richard Brautigan (1989). “Richard Brautigan's Trout Fishing in America ; The Pill Versus the Springhill Mine Disaster ; And, In Watermelon Sugar”, p.5, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Like some kind of strange vacuum cleaner I tried to console him. I recited the same old litanies that you say to people when you try to help their broken hearts, but words can't help at all. It's just the sound of another human voice that makes the only difference. There's nothing you're ever going to say that's going to make anybody happy when they're feeling shitty about losing somebody that they love.

  Richard Brautigan

  Heart, Voice, Differences

  Richard Brautigan (1995). “Revenge of the Lawn, The Abortion, So the Wind Won't Blow It All Away”, p.33, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• There was something dead in my heart. I tried to figure out what it was by the strength of the smell. I knew that it was not a lion or a sheep or a dog. Using logical deduction, I came to the conclusion that it was a mouse. I had a dead mouse in my heart.

  Richard Brautigan

  Dog, Heart, Sheep

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• All of us have a place in history. Mine is clouds.

  Richard Brautigan

  Clouds, Purpose, Mines

  "The Tokyo-Montana Express". Book by Richard Brautigan, 1979.

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• Once upon a time there was a dwarf knight who only had fifty words to live in and they were so fleeting that he only had time to put on a suit of armor and ride swiftly on a black horse into a very well-lit woods where he vanished forever.

  Richard Brautigan

  Horse, Dwarves, Knights

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• Her sunny side was always up.

  Richard Brautigan

  Sides, Sunny, Sunny Side

  Richard Brautigan (2012). “Sombrero Fallout: A Japanese Novel”, p.77, Canongate Books

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• There are spiders living comfortably in my house while the wind howls outside. They aren't bothering anybody. If I were a fly, I'd have second thoughts, but I'm not, so I don't.

  Richard Brautigan

  Wind, House, Spiders

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• A sombrero fell out of the sky and landed on the main street of town in front of the mayor, his cousin, and a person out of work. The day was scrubbed clean by the desert air. The sky was blue. It was the blue of human eyes, waiting for something to happen. There was no reason for a sombrero to fall out of the sky. No airplane or helicopter was passing overhead and it was not a religious holiday.

  Richard Brautigan

  Religious, Cousin, Fall

  Richard Brautigan (1976). “Sombrero Fallout”, Simon & Schuster

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• If you get hung up on everybody else's hang-ups, then the whole world's going to be nothing more than one huge gallows.

  Richard Brautigan

  Technology, World, Neurosis

  1970 The Abortion: An Historical Romance.

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• Im haunted a little this evening by feelings that have no vocabulary and events that should be explained in dimensions of lint rather than words. Ive been examining half-scraps of my childhood. They are pieces of distant life that have no form or meaning. They are things that just happened like lint.

  Richard Brautigan

  Vocabulary, Childhood, Feelings

  Richard Brautigan (1995). “Revenge of the Lawn, The Abortion, So the Wind Won't Blow It All Away”, p.125, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I didn't know the full dimensions of forever, but I knew it was longer than waiting for Christmas to come.

  Richard Brautigan

  Christmas, Waiting, Forever

  Richard Brautigan (2011). “So The Wind Won't Blow It All Away”, p.30, Canongate Books

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